<p>...if you have everything set on private?</p>
<p>Nothing...NOTHING...is TRULY private on the internet.</p>
<p>There are, believe it or not, ways to get around privacy settings. <em>GASP</em></p>
<p>If you don't want colleges/employers to see it, don't post it. Simple as that.</p>
<p>As long as you don't have shady pictures of yourself or vulgar messages on your wall, I don't see how it would be a problem.</p>
<p>I knew a woman who ran a youth program whose employer saw her Facebook -- and eventually permanently laid her off (without telling her the reason why) -- after a student whom the woman supervised showed the employer the Facebook.</p>
<p>Perhaps the woman thought that the things posted on her Facebook were cool, so that's why she friended all of the students in her program. . The info on Facebook included postings about how the woman hated her job. The students were not pleased to read that especially since the program had become very weak since the woman was hired.</p>
<p>Employers also get access to things like Facebook by having interns friend prospective hires, etc.</p>
<p>NOTHING is private on the Internet. Always make Internet postings as if your worst enemy or the adcoms from your fave college could see them.</p>
<p>I don't have anything scandalous. I'm just confused as to how they have access to it...</p>
<p>Why would they even look @ ur facebook? they got a hill of apps to look at, when will they even have the time to even look online about you?</p>
<p>^Most of them don't. However, you better believe employers do, and once you're actually in college, a lot of schools state in their honor code that online postings can be grounds for disciplinary actions. (It's in ours.)</p>
<p>If everything's set on private so that only your friends can see info, then they can't. It works pretty well as long as long as you don't friend everyone that asks you.</p>